Post #823001
2025-08-01 15:20 UTC
Replies (31)
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@6d03@mathstodon.xyz 2025-08-01 15:25
@xhr@infosec.exchange 🤯 I think I knew this once, and forgot.
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@ingo_wichmann@digitalcourage.social 2025-08-01 15:27
@xhr@infosec.exchange thx for the !, didn't know that
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@bws@social.linux.pizza 2025-08-01 22:45
@xhr@infosec.exchange wtf, TIL 😍
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@travisfw@fosstodon.org 2025-08-02 06:33
@xhr@infosec.exchange and here I've been piping through grep like a sucker. I could have saved sooo many pids!!
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@dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-08-02 07:00
@xhr@infosec.exchange / will start a search. n will redo the search, and v will jump to ur text editor.
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@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2025-08-02 14:23
@xhr@infosec.exchange in case it's useful, you can also toggle boolean options within less(1) so if you want to toggle case-sensitive searching, you can type -i or if you you want to toggle line-wrap -S or squeezing blank lines -s or search highlighting -G -g etc. No need to quit and restart it just to toggle an option you forgot.
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@0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net 2025-08-02 15:27
@xhr@infosec.exchange WHAT
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@efi@chitter.xyz 2025-08-02 15:59
@xhr@infosec.exchange had I known this, maybe I wouldn't have made meow, which sends the pipe to a gvim window in less mode
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@mdione@en.osm.town 2025-08-02 16:35
@xhr@infosec.exchange 25y too! WTF! I mean, RFTM, I guess...
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@dragonarchitect@rubber.social 2025-08-02 17:52
@xhr@infosec.exchange Today, I learned!!! 🤯
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@TommyTorty10@infosec.exchange 2025-08-02 18:16
@xhr@infosec.exchange I cant believe I haven't heard that before! Thank you for sharing!
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@underlap@fosstodon.org 2025-08-02 18:34
@xhr@infosec.exchange I've been at this for 40+ years and I clearly need to up my game from `cat` and `more`. 😉
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@nblr@chaos.social 2025-08-02 18:39
@xhr@infosec.exchange Neulich noch gepriesen, dass man manpages lesen soll, auch von dem Zeug was man zu kennen glaubt. TIL. WTF. Wow. :)
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@data@muenchen.social 2025-08-02 20:03
@xhr@infosec.exchange Don't worry, that feature was added just recently in 2008.
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@leah@blahaj.social 2025-08-02 20:18
@xhr@infosec.exchange more tricks: https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2015/02/six-hacks-for-less-1.html
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social 2025-08-02 20:27
@xhr@infosec.exchange Add a regex filter? Now you have TWO problems! :-)
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@oblomov@sociale.network 2025-08-02 20:58
@xhr@infosec.exchange mind.blown. thank you very much.
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@Philip@social.simplexity.quest 2025-08-02 21:11
@xhr@infosec.exchange Wow!
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@cantstopthesignal@mastodon.social 2025-08-02 21:18
@xhr@infosec.exchange whoa
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@the_grue@digitalcourage.social 2025-08-02 22:49
@xhr@infosec.exchange unfortunately it gets unbearably slow when used with larger files. I know this feature but usually still prefer grep | less .
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@apricots@toad.social 2025-08-02 22:56
@xhr@infosec.exchange attn: @b0rk@social.jvns.ca
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@buddhawilliams@eigenmagic.net 2025-08-02 23:22
@xhr@infosec.exchange WHAT??? I’ve been using more/less since 1991 and you are telling me this now????
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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social 2025-08-03 02:12
@xhr@infosec.exchange As a mere 18 month novice, I thank you for saving me from 23.5 years of extra work. @JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca
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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org 2025-08-03 08:07
I am surprised this was 🤯 for you, @xhr@infosec.exchange, because,after all, as I'm sure you know … ‘less’ is indeed ‘more‘. My favorite ‘less’ feature is that you can bind keys to (essentially) macros. I have a bunch of such bindings to speed up reviewing & verifying date in large sets of short files. Cc: @vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com
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@apicultor@hachyderm.io 2025-08-03 20:48
@xhr@infosec.exchange WHAT
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@compfu@mograph.social 2025-08-03 21:33
@xhr@infosec.exchange I didn't know that! I've only recently learned that less can launch an editor for the current file using v...
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@WuMing2@mas.to 2025-08-04 11:45
@xhr@infosec.exchange I wonder at times if discovery speed and memory retainment of functions are increased by GUIs. Or if TUIs are equally performing in that regard. Or if people with different learning and execution styles are equally performant with their favorite UI. Or if learning curves represent the only difference. That being said if I want to be quick and lean, and mostly know how to already, I always reach for the terminal. For discovery I poke around a GUI instead.
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@cceckman@hachyderm.io 2025-08-05 20:32
@xhr@infosec.exchange I used this today, thank you!
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@quincy@chaos.social 2025-09-04 09:08
@xhr@infosec.exchange *incredibly* useful, thanks!
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@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech 2025-09-04 09:31
@xhr@infosec.exchange ??!?
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@jamey@toot.cat 2025-09-04 10:10
@xhr@infosec.exchange To be fair, less introduced the & command for filtering lines in 2008, so everyone has only been missing it for 17 years rather than 25 (I say, as someone who also only learned about this feature recently despite over 25 years of using less)